Typological tools for field linguistics

Ditransitive alignment

Description

This questionnaire was developed for a research seminar on alignment taught at the University
of Amsterdam. It asks for basic facts about the expression of arguments in the language, with a
special focus on distinct types of second arguments of two-place predicates and third arguments of
three-place predicates. The second part asks about the basic alignment system that emerges from
these facts. The third part then goes into the operations that may change this basic alignment
system: passive/antipassive, applicatives, and dative shift.